The Georgia College baseball team (17-13) had plenty of offense on display Saturday to take doubleheader action from Barry University (14-16) 12-11 and 13-5 at John Kurtz Field. The Bobcats have now won 10 of their last 11.

Precious Bridges and Alicia Williams led the Mercer women’s basketball team with 19 and 15 points, respectively, but it was not enough as the Bears fell to Siena, 65-54, in the WBI semifinals on Wednesday evening.

After leading the Mercer University baseball team to a perfect 4-0 record including a sweep of East Tennessee State in the program’s inaugural Southern Conference series, sophomore Kyle Lewis and senior Eric Nyquist were named the SoCon Player and Pitcher of the Week.

The first round of the 2015 Mtn. Dew ATV Motocross National Championship, sanctioned by AMA (ATVMX), took place on Saturday in Middle Georgia with the Georgia National, presented by Kimsey Powersports, from Echeconnee MX.

In two vastly different games, the Georgia College baseball team (14-12, 7-8 PBC) swept a Peach Belt Conference (PBC) doubleheader with the University of Montevallo (12-12, 8-7 PBC) 14-2 and 6-5 Saturday at John Kurtz Field.

Precious Bridges scored a game-high 26 points to lead a quartet of double-digit scorers as the Mercer women’s basketball team used a dominant first half to rout Troy, 83-68, in the first round of the WBI Tournament on Thursday night.

The Georgia College softball team (28-4, 7-1 PBC) swept its third-straight series and 11th total Wednesday, taking down the Cougars of Columbus State University (17-13, 3-3 PBC) by scores of 4-3 and then 9-6.
Both games were nail biters, the first a one-run contest and the second taking an extra inning for the Bobcats to pull out their seventh-straight win.

Mercer’s Riley Carter and Kirsten Stevens have been named the Southern Conference Softball Player and Pitcher of the Week, respectively, the league announced Monday. The selections are made by the Southern Conference office.

For the fourth consecutive season, the Mercer men’s basketball team has secured a postseason berth as the Athletic Department announced the team has accepted an invitation to the College Basketball Invitational.

A pair of Brandon Purcell (Glennville) home runs in the final game of a three-game set keyed Georgia College baseball (9-12, 4-8 PBC) to a doubleheader sweep of Columbus State University (15-9, 4-8 PBC) 9-3 and 9-7 Sunday at John Kurtz Field.

The Georgia College women’s basketball team (16-13) took runner-up status in the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Tournament for the second-straight season Sunday afternoon, falling 63-51 in a defensive battle to Columbus State University (30-1) in the English E. Jones Center at UNC Pembroke.

T.J. Hallice had a career-high 19 points and nine rebounds, and Ike Nwamu scored 19 more to lead No. 3 seed Mercer to an 89-61 win over sixth-seeded Virginia Military Institute in the quarterfinals of the Southern Conference tournament Saturday night.

Three different Buccaneers recorded a double-double and ETSU held off Mercer, 66-56, in the second semifinal game of the 2015 Southern Conference Women’s Championship, presented by General Shale. The win moves the Buccaneers to 21-10 and advances ETSU to Sunday’s championship game, where it will face top-seeded Chattanooga. The loss ends Mercer’s season at 18-14.

The Georgia College softball team (19-3, 2-0 PBC) was delayed twice due to weather Thursday but that did not halt their momentum, as they swept Georgia Southwestern State University (7-9, 0-2 PBC) 5-2 and 4-2 in both teams’ first Peach Belt Conference (PBC) series of the season.

Three players scored in double figures and Mercer shot 50.0 percent from the floor to down Wofford, 75-54, in the final game of the first round of the Southern Conference Women’s Basketball Championship presented by General Shale. The win moves Mercer to 18-13 on the season and advances the Bears to Friday’s semifinals where they will face ETSU. The loss ends Wofford’s season with an 8-22 record.

Mercer men’s basketball senior Darious Moten, junior Ike Nwamu and freshman Stephon Jelks all earned recognition as the Southern Conference released its All-Conference awards Tuesday morning. Moten and Nwamu landed spots on the 10-member All-Conference team, while Jelks was one of five tabbed as All-Freshman selections.

The NFL has fined the Atlanta Falcons, stripped the organization of a draft pick and suspended team president Rich McKay from the league's competition committee beginning April 1 following the team's use of fake noise at home games.

Julio Teheran labored through 5 2-3 innings, allowing only two runs, and the Atlanta Braves roughed up Clay Buchholz for 12 hits and four runs in a 4-2 win over the Boston Red Sox on Friday in a game called in the top of the seventh inning because of rain.

Jordan Bowling had 18 points and seven rebounds, Anthony Hilliard added 14 points and Dalton State (Ga.) College cruised to a 71-53 victory over Westmont (Calif.) College in the NAIA national championship game on Tuesday.

The Georgia football team held its first full pads practice of the spring Tuesday afternoon at the Woodruff Practice Fields. The Bulldogs worked out for two and a half hours in what was their fourth practice this spring.

Jalen Reynolds and Myles Davis came off the bench for a combined 38 points as sixth-seeded Xavier end the biggest feel-good story of the NCAA Tournament with a 75-67 victory over Georgia State on Saturday night.

Two days after opening spring practices under ideal conditions with sunny skies and temperatures in the 70s, the Georgia Bulldogs returned to action on Thursday for a two-hour workout in weather that resembled preparations for a late-November matchup with Auburn.

R.J. Hunter's 3-pointer with 2.7 seconds remaining capped a comeback from a 12-point deficit and lifted 14th-seeded Georgia State to a 57-56 opening-game victory over third-seeded Baylor in the NCAA Tournament on Thursday.

Harrison Barnes had 25 points, Andre Iguodala added 21 points and six assists, and the Golden State Warriors cruised past the Atlanta Hawks 114-95 on Wednesday night in a matchup of the NBA's top two teams.

Bobby Portis of Arkansas was selected as Southeastern Conference player of the year by The Associated Press on Monday, while No. 1 Kentucky took the other awards: coach of the year John Calipari and freshman of the year Karl-Anthony Towns.

Boston Mayor Martin Walsh says the victory parade for the New England Patriots can't be pushed back again even though the city is still digging out from a snowstorm and the subway system is having weather-related service problems.

Kyle Busch is not getting involved in his older brother's personal issues, and expressed disappointment Monday that he has been mistaken for Kurt in coverage of assault allegations against the 2004 champion.

A former FBI director hired to look into how the NFL pursued evidence in the Ray Rice abuse case says the league should have investigated the incident more thoroughly before it initially punished the player.